displaying alphabets on LCD (omap3530evm)

Ashwini Deshpande1

Hi experts,

I am newbie in working with LCDs, my platform is OMAP3530evm. I want to know whether it is possible to display characters / alphabets on LCD screen. if yes then how ?

Any help in this regard is appreciated.

Thanks,

Ashwini

over 14 years ago

0 Vaibhav Hiremath over 14 years ago

TI__Expert 8180 points

Hi Ashwini,

From LCD perspective, its bare pixels displaying RGB data. You have to use application library/stack like, DirectFB, nanoX, QT, gstreamer, etc....(which is not my expertise) on top of video driver (/dev/fb OR /dev/video) to get characters, alphabet and similar things.

Thanks,

Vaibhav

0 Ashwini Deshpande1 over 14 years ago in reply to Vaibhav Hiremath

Intellectual 605 points

Thanks for reply. Will study it and get back to you for more help.

Regards,

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displaying alphabets on LCD (omap3530evm)